by. the ceasefire. is broken. all the details just ahead. of.

live from the heart of moscow this is. a welcome to the program israel has reported continued. despite pledging to halt its offensive a brief visit by egypt's prime minister who arrived to show support for palestinians says two people were killed in the latest strike following the deaths of nineteen palestinians including civilians since the start. reports from tel aviv . that ten silence i was reporting on before hardly had any time to last almost as soon as the announcement was made that egypt's prime minister was inside gaza that was that announcement was followed hot on the heels by the first sightings of both rockets being fired out of gaza almost as if nothing that happened and israeli air strikes in response it seemed that in hindsight all the

hope that have been placed around this visit the possibility of a cease fire being broke it seems to have been shattered egypt's prime minister was meeting how mass is prime minister in gaza and they were touring around the territory they were inside the hospital visiting some of the wounded when apparently two fresh victims were reportedly a child of an israeli airstrike were brought in whilst egypt's prime minister was there and he reportedly said that he described the situation in gaza as a disaster saying i simply cannot keep quiet israel must stop its aggression egypt really throwing its weight behind the gazans and how much they're saying it is israel that bears the burden for this escalation in aggression thirty thousand israeli reservists are ready to be called up they've also been numerous reports of tanks and troops moving south towards the border with gaza and

a number of harsh statements by i.d.f. and israeli defense spokespeople saying things like this is just the beginning of this operation it will go on for some days yet and saying that this operation will hit many more targets and israel will do anything that is needed including a ground invasion in order to secure the safety of its citizens living in the south but the risk of a ground war very much looming still and the shattering of this cease fire almost before it could begin really doesn't give any any greater hope that it can be avoided. reporting right now palestinians are continuing to ask world leaders to help to stop the israeli assault while israel's calling out thousands of additional troops and moving heavy weapons towards gaza ultimately stoking fears of a ground invasion just a bit earlier i spoke to

a spokesperson for the israeli prime minister's office. he denied that israel had attacked during the visit of the egyptian premier. i want to see that we have only one goal israel has to defend its citizens i'm sure that there is no state no state no russia and no state in europe and no united states of america can agree with this kind of situation you know our children our elders are fired by rockets on our schools on our civilians and only terrorists with one very simple goal to stop this firing of rockets on our civilians and we will target terrorists and stop would you care to explain why the palestinian interior ministry has also been targeted in fact that building is basically left in a state of rubble and ruin that's hardly a militant stronghold in fact the interior ministry is where people get passports

visas it's where journalists get their permission to go into the strip why go after why level the interior ministry the explanation is very simple unfortunately must terrorists while they target our civilians they hide behind their civilians they hide behind schools now the i.d.f. our army wants only to defend our citizens targets only terrorists garzon is an extremely confined area a very small area probably certainly overpopulated why are so many children being killed by israeli airstrikes if you're going after militants there are no children been heard by idea if only terrorists heard in only terrorists targeted while the visit of egyptian of the prime minister of egypt israel didn't fly and didn't attack any target in gaza but hamas here is the target israeli civilians

while the visit of the prime minister of egypt and i suggest you check the information because there it cannot be. people hurt while the visit of the prime minister of egypt because we didn't also doing are certainly going to show you why anyone may surely you are you're absolutely right according to the i.d.f. no airstrikes were carried out on the gaza strip juror during the visit of the egyptian prime minister although somehow two palestinians did manage to die the israeli army and the israeli government will do everything needed targeting terrorists only. to stop the firing of rockets on israeli cities don't because really schools is really children and if we will need some ground operation we definitely will consider how mass is vowing to keep fighting as long as the attacks continue let's have a quick listen here to the prime minister speaking in just a little bit earlier please stand by. we will never forget the blood of our martyrs

and the blood of our leaders this holy blood will not go without a response the great palestinian nation which has sacrificed martyrs for generations will never forget the hamas movement which now millions supports will never forget the blood of its martyrs it is more than ten years. fire rockets were serious on our schools and our citizens and we all the time. to defend we don't provoke and we don't attack believe me there is no provocation from the israeli side only one simple goal to be safe to have safe and peaceful life we want our children to go safely and peacefully to schools and leave safely that's all. well israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu was also been talking about hitting hamas with what he calls quote surgical strikes warning of a significant widening of the operation we did speak to dr mohamad

a stuffed bunny who's been treating the wounded he says they're coming from mostly residential areas and not military sites. civilians are under attack including women and children all the injured we're treating come to us from residential areas we are located in the intensive care unit of the clinic here in this bed as a nine month old girl with severe head injuries her life is hanging in the balance yesterday was only eleven months old he had burns over ninety five percent of his body he died an hour after admission these are children invaders started the war and against whom i think that wants to war against children and ordinary people because all of her patients are civilians. we can certainly keep track of what exactly is happening in gaza do so via our website there we've got a timeline featuring live updates on the latest everything from eyewitness accounts from the perceived strip to official statements from both sides. of it right now because issue a warning to israel for its threat to block the internet in gaza of course are

prepared to tell structures for users on how to avoid a communications blackout the more that star story of course full coverage of the conflict in gaza but our team doctor. thanks for joining us here on r.t. an israeli peace activist says the hamas military leader ahmed jabari assassinated at the start of israel's offensive was murdered amid talks on a long term truce with israel that activists and explain to our t. why he thinks israel didn't want the truce. there is a legitimate argument within the israeli security assessment of whether or not making a truce with hamas strengthens some us at a time when we know that the japanese colleagues are not peace activists they don't want peace with israel they're committed to israel's destruction for tactical reasons they have decided that a ceasefire was in their interest because each round of violence brings about the

death of between ten and twenty five. and they didn't see any value when nothing much was happening on the israeli side from their rocket attacks so they wanted to at least have a time where they could reconsider new moves the israelis thought. that by having a truce with them would strengthen them there were people who believe that what we need to do is systematically weaken hamas so that they will fall out of power and there is a belief that we need to create deterrents strong enough so that hamas want to attack israel the attack of rockets to the civilian population in israel is intolerable by any country and they need to take action i believe personally that we've tried everything we've assassinated leaders either sasa needed military commanders we have put on an economic siege we have bombed them we did cast lead we've tried everything except a dialogue except an attempt to reach an understanding with mechanisms for verification and for compliance with the involvement of the egyptian military

intelligence i think it had a chance to work but now will have to postpone it for some time. ten minutes past the hour moscow time the hague has acquitted two croatian generals jailed for war crimes against serbia during the breakup of yugoslavia in the one nine hundred ninety s. so we get life reaction from belgrade to ask why serbian generals from the same conflict face a much tougher battle of the u.n. tribunals as they fight to clear their names. and find out how the morale in the british police force has hit rock bottom with the constant constant a seemingly lack of government support moving the fight against crime and death threat all of the operational. things are just getting too expensive in london many families just can't afford to

live in the city anymore so because of upcoming welfare cuts the government is buying or rented property to relocate people outside of the city the maximum housing allowance for welfare will go down to four hundred pounds a month which is peanuts compared to the one thousand two hundred fifty pounds need to pay for the average three room apartment expelling the poor from london seems a bit fishy to me so instead of say regulating prices or cock forbid using the money from the welfare cuts to create jobs so people can earn a living for themselves rather than rely on handouts london is the side to make itself some official get to. what else do you call a place where everyone from a certain economic classes forcibly shove to although this may sound like some sort of help from the government it seems to me like a means to get rid of the poor rather than trying to make the poor less poor but that's just my opinion.

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if you're just joining us welcome to the program here on our will receive a shy two croatian generals previously convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity have been acquitted at the hague and take them a lot in markets were jailed for twenty four and eighteen years respectively for atrocities against hundreds of serbs during the breakup of yugoslavia back in one thousand nine hundred five they appealed their sentences in may disputing that they ever targeted civilians let's discuss it further now. joining us now live from belgrade it's good to see you today thanks for coming on the program with two croats jailed for crimes against humanity acquitted how likely is it that the same decision could follow for example the form of bosnian serb general. i would say impossible they come to try to broker what happened was that all the

figures from all the moms are high in the crop very benign being acquitted or very most of them were in erbium blue thinkers or. military officers get maximum. so we're looking at a case of double standards all in this case why do you think why do you think that is the case the main reason the critics have been and to not have a climate that is all for it to agree with that are that we justify the way that the west and there are going to remain in the balkans and then i mean we're following because i. think being out there now i serbia was labeled the bad guys in the what can be media. and all the others were all right we're going to guy as a result a tribunal response to our put that into law codifying not behave tribune wench we . can make its ruling meaning all rules for our war criminal are all

going on are pretty much now the court found that the initial convictions although god told them not to catch well based on the premise later ruled fulls that any all tillery that landed on serb inhabited towns was an attack on civilians what's your take on that. it was it was clearly that. i remember that showing i remember being the action will remember her going to court wrong at nine ninety five and later you had prominent not grenades calling on and really an order on our caribbean pretty ingrained show and then another call from the real you're not going to meet your new we're in terror bombing and. no one went there and i read even their voices in the web and reading all of that you had gotten fifty thousand people now i'm actually glad that you live protected region in

croatia as a result of targeting civilians are not a great while we have a lot of witnesses including professional all proving you're right the peacekeepers were provided but what do you think now what would you think is the likely reaction to be from the people and officials in serbia a lot of heard one reaction all right and that putin prime minister here are not who died who was in charge of cooperation with. the decision by a group in order to serbia who are all credibility also our troops out of a later problem furthermore from croatia who has handled out of the lawsuit against the creation of state on behalf of iraq that you cited this is absolutely a black day for international justice he was absolutely thought that he would sell his speech and support it he was embarrassed that it's out there we're going to be here our rules are the guilty one. that's the clan list i found out if i join us

live from belgrade thank you very much for coming on the program and you. now the escalating conflict between israel and gaza ongoing violence in syria and crucial energy ties they're all among the main issues for discussion by german chancellor angela merkel on her visit to moscow to meet president putin he's a got pissed off has the story. the german chancellor is to meet with the russian president later on friday the two are expected to discuss international issues like the crisis in the middle east the iranian nuclear program and of course the conflict in syria. energy and trade ties are a very important part of the relationship between russia and germany are going to be talked about as well the two leaders are also expected to discuss the human rights situation of several laws which have been recently and which some members of the german. democratic in fact they even gave a list of questions which he's expected to. the russian president will be heard

from his press service which said that the russian leader is prepared to answer all of them and asks in return. to talk about and of course bring you all the details of this meeting as soon as it happens here in moscow. you can tell us about whipping up a storm of controversy the u.s. emergency agency is facing after years of field it sold off disaster relief trailers on the very day that sandy was upgraded by forecasters superstorm. also on the web site the story of a model who is in hot water for wearing a feather headdress during a fashion show apparently a deeply offended native american details on that web site. starting with the ongoing conflict in syria let's get into the update now britain's foreign secretary william hague says his country is likely to formally recognize syria's opposition

coalition leaders after meeting them in london and turkey and france have already officially acknowledged the alliance is now considering supplying weapons to the rebels the u.k. also said it's due to discuss the lifting of the e.u. arms embargo on the rebel coalition. japan will be heading for the polls next month with the country's prime minister dissolving the lower house of parliament after the opposition liberal democratic party agreed to back the legislation including deficit financing and electoral reforms of the l.d.p. is expected to snuff up the most seats but will likely fall far short of a majority that could result in a weakened and divided coalition government the country struggles with a two decade long economic slump. but police in england and wales have been given a choice of who they want to see keep the peace in their local areas they've voted for police and crime commission is now doing it for the first time but the new

development goes hand in hand with the old problems of a former london police chief warning that plummeting morale is putting the fight against crime risk laura smith looks at why the force no longer feels it has the government's support. another day another demo and the police all with on hand to keep control but while the boys and girls in blue do their jobs sometimes it impossible conditions the government is reducing their budgets by a massive twenty percent the net result more all in the force hits an all time low with just fifteen out of fourteen thousand officers saying they feel the government gives them a great deal of support say those fifteen offices are certainly in the force i work in lancashire and i don't have any offices that they're not being supported by the government and that rock bottom bain's has lost five hundred fifty officers from her force meaning more work for those left behind and

a genuine fear that when people call nine nine nine there won't be anyone left to deal with the emergency and she's not alone so i'm in pain is chair of the war except police federation and says morale hasn't been this low in his twenty six year career. we have a plethora of issues over the last two years where the start or conditions of service pension reforms or were through forms in the police. twenty percent cuts times are so hard in warrick's that the force is even selling off its stations including its h.q. there's no for sale boards up here but the iconic scotland yard headquarters of the metropolitan police is also on the markets it's a real turnaround just a year ago the mets with trumpeting a three million pound refurbish its bay was revolving starting now it's downsizing

to a new size of the tens nearby and replacing smaller stations with counters in supermarkets and community centers. the force feels it's being disproportionately targeted but home secretary to reason may is on repentant lets stop pretending the police are being picked on they do feel picked on and critically powerless to protect themselves as legally the police aren't allowed to strike but that could change in february we are saying everyone can fall off the rank of chief inspector in england and wales and the very question is do they want full industry rights and and the reason that is important is because our members need protecting from what they perceive is an unfair treatment by by this government a police force on strike it's the last thing the government needs particularly as

it still has a not the winter of discontent in the face laura smith r.t. london. and in just a second at r.t. we'll talk to a former energy adviser to george w. bush shares his views on the likelihood of a strike on iran over its ongoing nuclear progress stay with us if you can. the sun rises over what seems like analyst forest here in new directions cry for hundred kilometers north of la de vos stop as in much of the world it's disappearing at a catastrophic rate. mockers both illegal and those finding ways to outsmart the system for filing down the forests of the region for them profit goes well beyond the future of our planet and the result could be an ecological crisis the world wildlife fund for nature makes

regular trips to help local rangers do what little they can to stop the logging but it's not easy lager set up trucks making them hard to reach in an already rough terrain and have mastered ways to jump through legal loopholes this is a nature reserve we're only sanitary logging of disease trees is allowed according to law and not a single berry can be picked but loggers like this use their sanitary logging permit to cut down absolutely healthy trees and sell the profitable to member over the border in china we are on the hunt for illegal loggers and it's not going to be easy to forests. and their chances are slim now for now we can stay in our dreams but as soon as we find quality tracks we'll have to drop our wheels and get out silently in order not to scare the loggers off alexander someone in ca has been a ranger for over twenty five years he can spend weeks at a time tracking a single group of loggers easier to work when snow falls in autumn it's impossible

to find human tracks and even transport tracks are hard to see after hours of driving we get sent in the right direction by word of mouth you can see that the ground is soft here which means that there's twelve the tractor trails are very fresh which in fact means that we need to be quite. in order to not scare them off as we get closer. this team says they're illegal but have no documents now xander can now call the police to take over his work here is done he is overwhelmingly outnumbered there are too few rangers working in the promote the region and the w w f he says the government isn't doing enough to stop it i guess the government now as they start observing for more fall for this legislation so assumes that doesn't so in regards a new forest court and according to. every forest service the guys in waltham in the in the forest through the still. forest courts deal doesn't work just.

as no one tries to stop them in just five years the forest will be gone they'll sell it all to china what will the people who live afterwards do. it's a question more and more people are aware of today climate change and the safety of our environment as a whole are being discussed around the world and perhaps it's those small steps that might be a start to people living in harmony with nature. sitting down with r.t. for a one on one interview is robert mcnally the founder and president of the rapid and group mr mcnally also served as top domestic and international energy adviser to george w. bush mr mcnally thank you very much for sitting down with r.t.

today you're very welcome glad to be here you have said that the u.s. the e.u. and israel give a fifty fifty probability that a war with iran would happen how big of a window of opportunity still exists to prevent any military action well i think it's closing very quickly iran. according to most nonproliferation experts nuclear experts will by sometime next year be at the point where they could quickly break out and enrich enough weapons grade uranium to then later weaponize and it's the enrichment process which is the most detectable and stoppable or to label part of building a nuclear weapon and i think there's a consensus among most folks even outside those governments most experts that iran is quickly approaching that level this is according to the i.a.e.a. reports on iran's progress so i think that's fairly well understood and i guess i'd say that there's a fine.